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''Portrait of Isabella d'Este'' (or ''Isabella in Black'') is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian painter Titian created between 1534 and 1536. It likely shows the Marquess of Mantua, Isabella d'Este (1474–1539), daughter of Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, and Eleanor of Naples. Although shown here as a young woman, Isabella was around 62 by the time the work was painted.〔Hope, Fletcher, et al, 38〕 She was socially ambitious and seems to have been aware of the effect paintings by renowned artists might have on her reputation and prestige - she commissioned other portraits by Leonardo da Vinci and Andrea Mantegna.〔Kleiner, 611〕 ''Isabella in Black'' is today in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. It is one of two portraits Titian painted of her; ''Isabella in Red'' (or ''Aged Isabella'') of 1529 is known only through a Peter Paul Rubens copy. It showed a more aged and matronly Isabella, but she was so displeased with the picture that she asked for a second idealised portrait, showing how she thought she looked forty years earlier.〔Cagli, 98〕 Art historian Lionel Cust mentions that Isabella's fame and renown was not due to "beauty, but to intellect and character".〔Cust, 286〕 Fred Kleiner wrote that the work is a "distinctive portrayal of his poised and self-assured patron that owes little to its model".〔Kleiner, 610〕 ==Identity of sitter== ''Portrait of Isabella d'Este'' is described as a portrait of the Queen of Cyprus (inventory list of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria Ozzola identified Titian's La Bella (Palazzo Pitti, Florence) as the youthful portrait, because of the more cajoling idealisation and similarities to other portraits of Isabella (i.e. 'Ambras Miniature', KHM Vienna).〔Leandro Ozzola, Isabella d'Este e Tiziano, in Bollettino d'arte, 1931, p. 491-494 Download: http://www.bollettinodarte.beniculturali.it/opencms/multimedia/BollettinoArteIt/documents/1407155929929_06_-_Ozzola_491.pdf〕 Rona Goffey identifies Isabella based on the sleeve knots of her gown, which contain a pattern known to have been commissioned by her. Other identifying clues include the characteristic plunging neckline and elaborate headdress,〔 but the related portrait by Giulio Romano 1531 (Royal Collection, London) changed identification from Isabella d'Este to Margaret Paleologa in the last years.〔http://www.royalcollection.org.uk - item RCIN 405777〕 Her eye colours light-gray is contrast to the other portraits in which they are brown and her eyebrows do not match, too. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Portrait of Isabella d'Este (Titian)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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